Ricky Reyes
Raised in Tacoma, Washington
Lives & works in Seattle, Washington
Education
University of Chicago | 2024 - 2025 (M.A. in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History)
Seattle University | 2014 - 2018 (B.A. in Public Administration & Philosophy)
Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute/Wa Na Wari | 2021 - 2023 (Oral History)
Tacoma School of the Arts | 2011 - 2014
Brief Experience
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2024 - Media Burn Independent Video Archive | Video Editor, Archival, and Social Media Graduate Intern
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2024 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Content Strategy, Rights & Images Graduate Intern
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2023 - The City of Tacoma Division of Community & Economic Development (Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality) | Public Art Project Manager
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2021 - The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture | Public Art Project Manager
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2021 - Wa Na Wari, Black Spatial Histories Institute | Oral Historian
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2020 - Office of Arts & Culture | ARTS at King Street Station Gallery Lead
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2018 - Office of Arts & Culture | Racial Equity & Arts Commission Coordinator
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2017 - Office of Arts & Culture | Research and Communications Contractor
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2016 - Sub Pop | Licensing & Marketing
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2016 - Museum of Pop Culture | Education Programs & Community Outreach
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2015 - Napster | Social Media Marketing Intern
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2015 - Seattle Theatre Group | Programming & Booking Intern
Attended Training & Workshops
Arts, Displacement, and Intentional Communities (2019)
Bystander Intervention, Cair WA (2018)
Build Arts Space Equitably Cohort Coordinator (2019)
Cross-Movement Organizing: Strategies to Resist and Dismantle Oppression (2018)
Storytelling for Collective Liberation (2019)
Internalized Racial Inferiority, Office of Civil Rights (2019)
POC Leadership Training, RARE Coaching & Consulting (2018)
Storytelling Strategies for Dismantling Racism, NONWHITEWORKS (2019)
Understanding Power, Office of Civil Rights (2019)
Undoing Institutional Racism, The People’s Institute (2019)
Skills
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Art Administration
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Oral History
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Public Art Project Management
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Racial Equity Framework
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Facilitation
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Public Speaking
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Event Planning & Coordination
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Social Media Marketing
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Music & Creative Sound Design: Production, Songwriting, Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Beat Making
Publications
Creative Strategies for Career-Connected Learning: Youth Voice in the Media Classroom. (Reyes, Nguyen-Akbar, 2018)
New Orleans Charter Education:
Combating Charter-Based School Segregation. (Reyes, 2018)
Contracted Oral Histories
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(2023 - 2025) Restorative Justice in Seattle Public Schools, WA-BLOC
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(2023) Black Waterfront Histories, Friends of the Waterfront Seattle
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(2023) McKinney Center for Community and Economic Development Oral Histories, Central District Community Preservation & Development Authority
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(2022) A More Perfect Union Oral Histories, Humanities Washington
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(2021-2023) Seattle Waterfront Oral Histories (Union Organizing, Black/Indigenous Contributions to Seattle's Waterfront)
